Foods to REPAIR Kidney Damage (Must Watch)

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1:00The kidney is a filter. This one on the left is a dirty kidney. This one on the right is a clean kidney. We're going to show you how to go from this to this using foods. I think the biggest myth about the kidney is this topic of potassium. I don't know how this started, but people tend to think that potassium is really bad for the kidney. You have to avoid potassium foods if you want to protect the kidney. That is absolutely not true. Potassium actually protects the kidney from damage. The only time you want to take potassium is when you started to get advanced stage kidney disease. You need to consume a lot of potassium since our bodies require 4700 milligrams a day. A couple of ways that the potassium helps the kidney, other than directly protecting kidney damage, is this. Potassium lowers your blood pressure. Having high blood pressure is one of the main things that destroys the kidney. If you have an imbalance with sodium and you don't have enough potassium, that can also be hard on the kidney. The way to handle the sodium on the kidney is simply to increase your potassium.

2:03Potassium can help protect you against kidney stones because it can lower the incidence of oxalates binding with calcium. The real bad things that damage the kidney. Number one, and this is the biggest one, consuming a lot of sugar, starches, things like that. Because all that sugar in your blood ends up in the kidney and it creates a lot of oxidation. And you can visualize that as something that's rusting out the kidney, damaging that little filter. Other things that will destroy the kidney, alcohol, and sets like ibuprofen. Medications, a lot of medications are synthetic, prednisone, or even antibiotics. Getting too many pesticides from the foods, heavy metals, food dies. And too much phosphorus from soda, really damaging to the kidney. Being in the right diet with enough vitamin D and potassium, and even magnesium can greatly help that. I'm going to show you all the different foods that you should be eating that can help reverse a lot of the things I'm talking about. Number one is really a category of key vegetables that are really important

3:05with kidney function, asparagus. Some people don't like it, but if you can consume it, it's really good for the kidney. It has a certain enzyme that helps to detoxify the kidneys. The next vegetable I would recommend is celery. Celery also has things in it to greatly improve kidney function. Bell peppers are loaded with vitamin C. And a lot of other good nutrients for the kidney. Cabbage is another really good vegetable for the kidney. Cauliflower is another great vegetable. Garlic is loaded with alasin, which is really good for kidney function. There are plenty of other vegetables, but these are the ones that are very low in something called oxalates. Spinach is high in oxalates. You can have spinach, but I would recommend having with cheese because those oxalates could irritate the kidney. And the most common kidney stone is calcium oxalate stones. And one great remedy for that is increasing your magnesium. Number two, magnesium rich foods. Pumpkins. When you want your spring break to feel like...

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5:06The first one is lactobacillus, kacy, and bifidobacterium, longum. Both of those have been extensively used to help take the stress off the kidney. I would highly recommend them. Number four, having not just a high quality protein source, also not overdoing it. Adding more protein could stress it a little bit more. If you're seeing excess waste from protein in your blood or your urine, you're consuming too much protein. Cut down the amount of protein. You don't want to go low. You want to go a moderate amount of protein. Maybe you do six to seven ounces per meal. And as far as the source goes, wild caught fish, sardines, and cod liver would also give you the omega-3, and that's good for the kidney as well. And then also eggs. Number five, high antioxidant foods. Blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, beets are really good for the kidney as well. To counter some of this rusting out effect that happens just having high blood sugar or other things. Number six, quercetin.

6:06Quercetin has some really great properties for the kidney. And the best source of quercetin is white onions, red onions. I consume a lot of onions. And you can saute them, eat them raw. Quercetin has an anti-inflammatory effect. It also then will prevent scar tissue in the kidney. It tends to put the fire out if there is oxidative stress. So just cook your eggs with onions or add onions to the meal. And number seven, extra virgin olive oil. When it comes to olive oil, there are certain things in olive oil, certain chemical compounds that are just dynamite for inflammation, kidney support. And it's even good for kidney stones. And I've sampled a lot of different olive oils and there's a lot of good ones out there. And of course, my favorite is the one from Italy. I will put a link down below of the one that I use. It's off the charts as far as quality. As far as drinking liquid. It's also true if you're consuming too much liquid. That's not good for the kidney because it causes the kidney to work too hard. You need that sweet spot right in the middle.

7:06One additional little tip I'm going to recommend when you drink liquid. Pre-make some tea. Keep it in the fridge and consume tea as your main liquid. Because the polyphenols and tea do a lot for the kidney. These polyphenols also combine with excessive iron that can damage the... Exema is unpredictable. But you can blare less with eggless. A once monthly treatment for moderate to superior eczema. After an initial four-month or longer dosing phase, about four and ten people taking eggless, achieved itch relief and glare are almost glare skin at 16 weeks. And most of those people maintain skin that's still more glare at one year, with monthly dosing. Emgless, LibriKizumap, LBKZ. A 250mg per 2mL injection is a prescription medicine used to treat adults and children 12 years of age and older, who weigh at least 88 lbs or 40kg with moderate to severe eczema. Also called a topic dermatitis that is not well controlled with prescription therapies used on the skin, or topicals, or who cannot use topical therapies. Emgless can be used with or without topical corticosteroids.

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